According to recent reports, a 48-year-old member of Planet Fitness in Midland, Mich., was recently relieved of her membership at the gym after bringing a policy concern to management. She claimed to have entered the fitness center’s locker room during a recent visit to find a “very manly” member in the ladies-only section of the club.

“I just stopped right there in my tracks,” Yvette Cormier recalled. “It was a man for sure.”

She explained that she complained to a staff member who acknowledged the gym had received “lots of complaints” about the transgender member and attempted to remedy the situation by telling him “to go change in a stall.”

Beyond that, however, Cormier said she was told Planet Fitness’ policy is that members are permitted in either locker room depending on their own gender identity.

“I wouldn’t have signed up for this gym if I knew that ahead of time,” she asserted, citing the potential threat of sharing such an intimate space with a man.

Not only did she not get the response she had hoped for, gym management went so far as to revoke her membership for complaining about the gender-bending locker room situation.

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“They said, ‘You are talking to people about him in the women’s locker room. You are making people upset,’” she recalled. “That’s my whole point. I’m telling them and warning them because you are not doing that. You allow men in there and we are appalled by it.”

For its part, the gym released a statement claiming Cormier “expressed her concerns” in a manner “that management at the Midland club deemed inappropriate and disruptive to other members, which is a violation of the membership agreement and as a result her membership was cancelled.”